In this CBC The Current interview I discuss the differences between western laboratory science and Indigenous Knowledge. I talk about the limitations of western laboratory science as a protector of our water, the profoundness of Indigenous ways of knowing, the need for all peoples to go back to their own Indigenous knowledge because we all have our own, and the destruction of sacred places ‒ in particular Akikpautik located just upstream from Canada’s Parliament buildings.

I also address the $500 million price tag wasted on Canada day 2017, the genocide within Canada’s land claims policy that forces Indigenous people such as the Algonquin Anishinaabeg to extinguish jurisdiction to their traditional territories. I argue Trudeau is co-opting terms such as "nation-to-nation" and "reconciliation" while at the same time continuing with its larger policy of genocide. lastly I argue Canada does not care about our water quality – not in terms of practice knowledge.

I end with reminding people to go back to their own Indigenous knowledge as this is where they will learn how to be the human beings Creator intended them to be.

​Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. In 2017 she won an Ontario Court of Appeal case on sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Algonquin land claims process. Recently she published Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit. You can reach her through, and see more of her work, at www.lynngehl.com.